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Long-drawn Process. But good works and great sanctity are not all it takes to make a saint. One of the things it takes is a lawsuit-long-drawn, intricate and complex. In the first step toward canonization a diocesan tribunal is appointed in each diocese where the candidate has lived. Before this tribunal a local Vice Postulator pleads the candidate's "Cause" while a Promoter of the Faith (the "devil's advocate") makes all possible objections at every turn...
...Filipino citizen is complex. He is an islander but not a seafarer. He is loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral...
...This is a great and complex country. . . . It is easy to sing her praise, it is not difficult to be satirical about her, but the most difficult is to understand...
...important to the security of my family." For about 15 years, Kansas-born Harold Smith had researched and taught the science of government, had served in local and state administrations. Finally he had come to the top, to become the all but indispensable inter-bureau diplomat and master of complex finance and administration. At 48, balancing his personal books, the best that he could say was that he had broken even with his "fixed charges." By dint of such occasional frugalities as cutting his son's hair, he now had a modest house in a middle-class Washington suburb...
Waters is beautifully lighted and photographed. Confirmed admirers of French filmmaking will also find it sparkling with the usual Gallic excellences: subtle underplaying, sharp character drawing, loving attention to significant detail, a shrewd understanding of the overtones to complex human relationships...